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Equifax hacked - the Equifax hack contains arguably the most sensitive data about individuals – about 143 million of them – including social security numbers, full names, addresses, birth dates, and even drivers licenses and credit card numbers for some.

I'm really interested in learning more about the evasive maneuver Tesla cars while in auto-pilot do in these sort of accidents. In that sort of accident it really is a dice roll if people come out okay, it's a great opportunity for a smart machine learning system to take control.

I can see the machine catching it quicker, but not fast enough to do anything. Too much inertia to overcome.

However, it will be interesting to see how close they'll let the AI take a vehicle to the edge of its performance envelope. In theory, it should be able to perform evasive maneuvers that if a human tried, they'd flip the car. The AI can even push the envelope out, because it can tell the car what it's trying to do, and have it distribute power to the wheels accordingly, rather than have to guess what the monkey is thinking.

Of course once everyone has an AI driver, they'll all talk to each other so they will each know where other nearby vehicles are intending to go and what manoeuvres they intend to make in advance. And of course they won't fall asleep, get drunk, do their makeup, play Pokémon Go or send text messages while driving so they will be many orders of magnitude more predictable to each other than we are.

I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....